@kfield No, I was more the grungy bluejeans type. But you reminded me of a story. Was in the college ham radio shack with my girlfriend and texting with someone in the USA. (Back then we called it "teletype"). He asked if the streaking craze had caught on up in Canada yet; we didn't know what he meant. My girlfriend suggested he might be referring to tie-dying, which I had never heard of. Of course, on the "over" I asked, and found out what "streaking" meant. And yes, it did catch on quickly.

@Glen, Caleb I was just thinking that these day's you'd use lasers and mirror galvanometers or something similar to do that. Then I remembered I rescued some bar code readers from the trash not long ago. They have a laser in and some kind of deflection mechanism for the scan. I just have to get the other 10 000 things done that I need to do, then I'll look at doing something with that.,,,,

@Glen, Caleb I was just thinking that these day's you'd use lasers and mirror galvanometers or something similar to do that. Then I remembered I rescued some bar code readers from the trash not long ago. They have a laser in and some kind of deflection mechanism for the scan. I just have to get the other 10 000 things done that I need to do, then I'll look at doing something with that.,,,,

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